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ferior to man,--it settles nothing. She is still a responsible, tax-paying member of civil society. We rest our claim on the great, eternal principle, that taxation and representation must be co-extensive; that rights and burdens must correspond to each other; and he who undertakes to answer the argument of this Convention must first answer the whole course of English and American history for the last hundred and fifty years. No single principle of liberty has been enunciated, from the year 1688 until now, that does not cover the claim of woman. The State has never laid the basis of right upon the distinction of sex; and no reason has ever been given, except a religious one,--that there are in the records of our religion commands obliging us to make woman an exception to our civil theories, and deprive her of that which those theories give her. Suppose that woman is essentially inferior to man,--she still has rights. Grant that Mrs. Norton never could be Byron; that Elizabeth B